Maine Memory Network

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825

"Early Wharves and Yards - 1795 to 1825 Site of Vose's Wharf, Thomaston, Maine 2009Thomaston Historical Society Philip Hanson arrived from…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Early History - 1719 to 1740

"Early History - 1719 to 1740 After inheriting the Muscongus Patent from his grandfather, John Leverett arranged for a settlement of families in the…"

Swan's Island: Six miles east of ordinary - II. Pinkies, wherries, skiffs and chebaccos: Early Settlement

"Swan's Island Historical Society Early settlers supplemented their harvests with fishing to make a decent living."

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 2 of 2

"Early Railroads in Bangor Resources for the Early Railroads Exhibit: B. O. & M. Cardin, Bob. Old Veazie Railroad 1836, one of America’s very first…"

Thomaston: The Town that Went to Sea - Building Boom, early 19th century

"Building Boom, early 19th century Ship Samuel Watts, Rounding the Beacon, Thomaston, Maine 1970Thomaston Historical Society With the arrival…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 2 of 2

"The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation The committee sent a similar address to the citizens of Maine urging them to support…"

Maine's Road to Statehood - The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation - Page 1 of 2

"The American Revolution and Early Attempts at Separation Overwhelmingly dedicated to independence from Britain, Mainers quieted any murmurs of…"

Life on a Tidal River - Early Railroads in Bangor - Page 1 of 2

"Early Railroads in Bangor By William Cook, Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, Bangor Public Library Knickerbocker Express, ca."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - Wartime on Mt. Desert Island

"… on the island still show the stones of these early settlers, often with an epitaph that recognizes their status as a veteran of war."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - A Short History Of Performing Arts On Mount Desert Island

"… Arts History on the Island with examples from Early Performances on MDI during the late 1800s, then onto the early part of the 20th century and the…"

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - More Permanent Settlers Arrive

"Most of these early families received their land titles from either Governor Bernard or Bartholemy and Marie Therese de Gregoire."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 6 of 6

"… version of a defining problem in the history of early Maine: conflicts sown by vague boundaries drawn on paper in faraway rooms."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Beyond Borders: an historical overview - Page 1 of 6

"… political economy, empires, and borderlands in early North America. He is the author of Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Plymouth Company (Kennebec Proprietors) records, ca. 1625-1824

"… records include extensive information about early land dealings; early contact, interactions, and diplomatic relationships with Wabanaki people…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 3 of 4

"… economic activities, in short, undergirded both Wabanaki society and White New England colonists’ investment in and settlement of early Maine."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 5 of 5

"… by Nova Scotia and Massachusetts in the early 1760s had produced contradictory results, and maps of the area—when they even managed to accurately…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Who were the Kennebec and Pejepscot Proprietors? - Page 5 of 7

"… in the mid 1730s, and Samuel Goodwin, an early clerk for the Kennebec Proprietors, not only organized meetings, but also took the lead in company…"

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Wabanaki Agency in the Proprietor Records - Page 5 of 5

"… the Wabanaki people who remained to interpret early documents and the placenames they contained. One striking example is the testimony of Pial Pôl."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Women in Colonial Economies - Page 2 of 4

"… White New Englanders invested in and settled in early Maine, they mobilized kinship ties that structured colonial business and investing practices."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947

"Remnants of these early homes can still be seen near Bar Harbor. Bar Harbor never regained its standing as the premier spot for vacation homes."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Further Reading

"… and Dispossession: Natives, Empires and Land in Early Modern North America. Cambridge, United Kindgom: Cambridge University Press, 2019."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - The Shaping of the Borderlands: Arcane Deeds and Failed Colonies - Page 2 of 5

"… border commissions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century was one of jurisdictional confusion and uncertainty."

Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - The Division of MDI Begins

"The early records from the church help give a picture of what life was like for those early settlers."

Beyond Borders - Mapping Maine and the Northeast Boundary - Fixing Borders on the Land: The Northeastern Boundary in Treaties and Local Reality, 1763-1842 - Page 2 of 5

"… and maps in the Barclay Collection from the early 1820s. David Thompson's Diary of Astronomical Observations, 1817Maine Historical Society…"